County Of Lincoln

County Of Lincoln, a U.S. county government entity headquartered in Carrizozo, New Mexico, operates as a federal grant recipient and prime contractor for detention services and disaster recovery infrastructure work, with no set-aside designations. The county competes full-and-open as a government entity and holds the majority of its awards (81%) as prime recipient or contractor, with the remaining 19% as sub-recipient on state-pass-through disaster grants.

The county's federal work concentrates on two capability areas grounded in its geography and recent experience: detention center operations under contract to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and emergency watershed protection and infrastructure recovery following the South Fork and Salt Fires of June 2024. On detention services, County Of Lincoln holds a $3.4 million definitive contract with the BIA Central Office running through March 2028 for adult detention services at the Lincoln County Detention Center in Carrizozo, awarded September 6, 2023; the same customer (BIA Albuquerque Acquisition Office) placed multiple earlier purchase orders for detention center services, including a $637 thousand award in January 2022 and a $183 thousand ratification purchase order in July 2023. On disaster recovery, the county is recipient on a $190.99 million cooperative agreement awarded March 9, 2026, by the Natural Resources Conservation Service under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (CFDA 10.923) for removal of flood-damaged structures and imminent-hazard mitigation through September 2026; earlier NRCS cooperative agreements for the same program, awarded in July 2022 and January 2022, addressed debris removal and erosion control from the McBride Fire. The county also holds a $3.2 million Economic Development Administration project grant awarded August 1, 2024, for fire training program infrastructure and animal evacuation facilities at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds, and an EDA project grant awarded April 25, 2024, for disaster recovery technical capacity and bridge inspection assessment through April 2027.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Albuquerque Acquisition Office (9 awards, $5.4 million combined potential value) and the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (4 awards), which together account for 72% of recent awards. The two rankings diverge significantly on dollars: the BIA Albuquerque office's 9 awards represent $5.4 million in potential value, while a single BIA Central Office award for detention services carries $3.4 million, and the four NRCS awards — though modest in individual potential-value ceiling — support the $190.99 million cooperative agreement now in performance. Across all 32 awards in the source, combined obligated dollars total $264.5 million, indicating heavy drawdown against relatively modest ceiling values, primarily driven by the current NRCS flood-recovery agreement.

Four awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $3.4 million and facing recompete exposure. In SCI-reportable service contracts, County Of Lincoln invoiced $720 thousand in FY2023 (the sole year with reportable invoicing); subsequent SCI records show zero FTEs and zero invoicing in FY2022 and FY2024, indicating SCI capture is narrow and episodic for this government entity. The county sub-receives on multiple state pass-through disaster grants from the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the New Mexico Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department, acquiring personal protective equipment and firefighting communications equipment for wildland fire response in January, February, and July 2025. As a government entity, County Of Lincoln is ineligible for SBA designations and competes procurement awards without set-aside categories across detention operations, natural resources management, and emergency response infrastructure aligned to its county-level mission.